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  • Permanently Mount a Drive on Raspberry Pi

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    Working on your Raspberry Pi from the inserted SD card is fine for some applications but if you want to store a significant amount of data or perform more intensive IO operations then you’re going to need to attach an external hard drive. Connecting a drive over USB3 should mean you get a decent throughput…

  • Running Docker on a Raspberry Pi

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    Docker has, for a lot of cases, become the go to way to install and run certain services. Docker is a container system which means it comes with all the advantages of containers such as ease of installation, resource management and security. Docker is also fairly low overhead so it’s possible to run a number…

  • Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Raspberry Pi

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    In an earlier article I configured a Raspberry Pi to accept SSH logins using keys rather than passwords all the while working from a Windows 10 machine. In this article I’ll do the same but working from another Raspberry Pi machine. Although I’m using a Raspberry Pi here this process, or something very much like…

  • Configuring SSH Keys on Raspberry Pi from Windows

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    This guide assumes you have a Raspberry Pi already installed e.g. you can log in and see either a command prompt or the desktop. This guide will make use of the command line. I’m setting up a headless server as I write this and working on a Windows 10 machine. All key generation and configuration…

  • The Wonder that is FFmpeg

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    I’ve recently discovered FFmpeg and I’m absolutely blown away how good it is. In the past when I’ve had to encode video I’ve generally used Handbrake but at the end of the day this is just a wrapper over the top of FFmpeg. If you’re willing to learn the commands necessary to drive FFmpeg directly…

  • Making a Docker Container Use a VPN

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    A while back I wrote a post on routing all traffic through a VPN under Linux. The solution discussed in that post is fine if you are only dealing with regular applications but when you are dealing with containers the world is a difference place. Docker networks are, or at least can be, complicated. By…

  • Adding and Testing a New HDD Under Linux Mint

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    I recently treated myself to a new hard drive as I was running out of space. I decided to go with a Seagate external drive and shuck it for my server. Shucking is the act of removing a drive from an eternal drive enclosure and fitting it somewhere else such as a NAS. I’ve not…

  • Routing All Traffic Over a VPN Under Linux

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    I’ve recently been setting up a machine that has to send all data over a VPN which feels like it should be really simple but has actually turned out to be tougher than I expected. I thought I could set it up by using routing and I think it’s probably possible but way more hassle…

  • No Space on the boot Partition

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    When I installed my Ubuntu Linux virtual machines I just let the installer do whatever it felt was right in terms of disk partitioning. In hindsight that was probably a mistake because it gave me a separate 256Mb boot partition. While this partition is large enough to store several kernels I do find myself running…

  • Year of the Linux Desktop?

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    I just read this article over on betanews (not I site I’d ever seen before) stating that Linux was dead on the desktop because of Windows 10.

  • Ubuntu Install – GRUB on the USB

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    It seems like only yesterday that I was installing Red Hat from floppy disks. Fortunately things have moved on a bit and now I generally install Ubuntu from a USB stick. The other day though I ran into a new problem. At the end of the process the installer asks if you’d like to install…

  • Simpler KVM Network Configuration

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    In the series of articles I wrote discussing the installation of KVM on Ubuntu I spent articles 2 and 3 discussing the network set up but it occurred to me that it was actually an unnecessarily difficult set up and so in this article I’ll discuss a simpler KVM network configuration set up.